24 ‘political progres of Britain. May 9. 
Jn August 14739, Britain entered into a treaty 
with the landgrave of Hefse for four years! We 
were to pay him two hundred and fifty thousand 
crowns per annum, and to be supplied with six thou- © 
sand men. 
On the 20th October 1740, died our once projected 
king of Spain, the emperor Charles yi. He was suc- 
ceeded by his daughter Maria Theresa. Geoyge II. 
‘by one of his endlefs treaties, had engaged to defend 
her dominions, if attacked, with an army of twelve 
thousand men. In April 1741, he informed the 
House of Peers, that he had ordered the subsidy 
troops of Denmark and Hefse Cafsel, to be ready to 
march to her afsistance. Sir Robert Walpole moved, — 
‘that an aid of two hundred thousand pounds fhould 
be granted to her. Mr Shippen protested against 
any such interposition in the affairs of Germany. 
He remarked, ‘* that had- such a’ connection been 
‘* foreseen, it might for ever have precluded from 
** the succefsion that z/ustrious family to whom the 
<* nation were indebted fot such numberlefs blefsings, 
*¢ such continued felicity!” The two hundred thou- 
sand pounds were voted*, and three hundred thon- 
sand pounds additional, to enable his majesty effec- 
tually to support the queen of Hungary. Another 
million was borrowed from the sinking fund. 
Since the accefsion of the House of Brunswick, 
they had entered into at least some hundreds of se~ 
parate treaties with almost every different prince 
* Smollet, from whom] am abridging, a few.poges after states thissum 
at tree hundred thousand pounds. And Beatson says that in April 17415 
two hundred thousand pounds were granted to his majesty for a secret expe- 
dition, Naval memoirs vol. 1. p. 76. 
